11 years ago

v0.29:
- Fan control is now System control, and allow to use this functionnality to control any hardware with custom scripts
- New System control script which shows how to control nvidia video card overclock
- One minor bug fixed
- in custom sensor, the ':' after the label has been removed and it'S possible to choose the icon to display
- new "howto.txt" file with custom sensors and system control examples.

I think this watermarkscreenlet is one off the best there is. But i have some problems with it. I'm using it on a DELL D630C with 1440X900 Nvidia Quadro chipset (Ubuntu Hardy). The problem:

When i lock and make the screenlet sticky sometimes when i poweron the system the screenlet have moved. There not on the same spot then anymore. Its also not alwats sticky, i have todo unsticky and sticky again for the sticky effect. I'm using cpu meter, wireless meter, clock, and sensors, + systeminformation.

This is a known bug from old versions of screenlets framework. This is not a bug from WaterMark.
To fix it, you should update to the last version of screenlets:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Screenlets+0.1.2?content=82586

Not so. Fedora 9 has the 0.1.2 package. After making some tweaks with fusion, Watermark screenlets will revert to keep above when started. Screenlets like Clear Weather do not do this. I will remove Watermarks and see if reinstalling them and not messing around too much with fusion-icon will fix this.

Actually it looks like it was something in the config files for the screenlet got borked while I was mucking about with fusion. Once all the fusion silliness was sorted out, I cleared the settings for the Watermark screenlets and tried again, with a default of stay below. Settings have stuck so far.

This is a problem with the screenlet manager, not my screenlet, since this is managed by "screenlets" and not "watermark".
However, if you want to keep the screenlet below, just check the "below" option. When you will come back, the below option will no more be checked, but the screenlet will work as if it is checked. This is the way it works for me, but I use scrennlets version 0.0.12 and not the last one (0.1.2)

Here is a script which will be available with the next release, as an example on how to use the screenlet to control cpu frequency.
This may be really useful if you want to save energy and force low frequency, or if your CPU is heavily overclocked and you want to force it to relax when powerful calculation capability is not critical.
You can use with "custom sensor" and the script used to display CPU frequency given in the howto.txt file.

The file must be run as root (check the "sudo command" in System control tab)
Set the start value to the value you want (0 or 100%)
Set the step value to 100.

And now here is the script. Copy it in a file called cpufreq.py (for example), set it writable only for root and runnable.

############### Start script (do not copy this line)#############
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
#This script is made to work with 4 cores system. Modify it to meet your needs
#You need to have cpufreq driver working to use it
#this script must be run as root (sudo)
# the -g parameter can be "conservative", "ondemand", "powersave", "userspace" or "performance" depending on your CPU capabilities
import sys
import commands

This can be fixed as follows,
1, Right click the particular screenlet > select Properties > select Options tab > you see the "Skip Taskbar" option selected! if not select it (this would hide the screenlet from the taskbar).

This can be fixed as follows,
1, Right click the particular screenlet > select Properties > select Options tab > you see the "Skip Taskbar" option selected! if not select it (this would hide the screenlet from the taskbar).

11 years ago

v0.29:
- Fan control is now System control, and allow to use this functionnality to control any hardware with custom scripts
- New System control script which shows how to control nvidia video card overclock
- One minor bug fixed
- in custom sensor, the ':' after the label has been removed and it'S possible to choose the icon to display
- new "howto.txt" file with custom sensors and system control examples.